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Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work

Folsom, Ed and Kenneth M. Price. Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Type: 
book
Genre: 
biography, literary criticism
Abstract: 

In this overview of Whitman's life and work, Folsom and Price make the following comments about the poet's connection to Pfaff's: "At Pfaff's, Whitman the former temperance writer began a couple of years of unemployed carousing; he was clearly remaking his image, going to bars more often than he had since he left New Orleans a decade earlier. At Pfaff's, he mingled with figures like Henry Clapp, the influential editor of the anti-establishment Saturday Press. . . . Whitman also became friends with many writers, some well known at the time: Ada Clare, Fitz-James O'Brien, George Arnold, and Edmund Clarence Stedman. It was here, too, that a young William Dean Howells met Whitman" (61).

People Mentioned in this Work

Arnold, George [pages:61]

Mentioned as a writer Whitman met at Pfaff's.

Burroughs, John [pages:87]
Clapp, Henry [pages:61]

Mentioned as a writer Whitman met at Pfaff's.

Clare, Ada [pages:61]

Mentioned as a writer Whitman met at Pfaff's.

The Fred Gray Association [pages:62]

"A loose confederation of young men who seemed anxious to explore new possibilities of male-male affection."

Howells, William [pages:61]

Mentioned as a writer Whitman met at Pfaff's.

O'Brien, Fitz-James [pages:61]

Mentioned as a writer Whitman met at Pfaff's.

Stedman, Edmund [pages:61]

Stedman in mentioned as a writer Whitman met at Pfaff's.

Vedder, Elihu [pages:60]

Vedder is mentioned as a friend of Whitman.

Whitman, Walt [pages:61,62,87]

Whitman's connection with Pfaff's is mentioned on pages 61, 62, and 87.